This blog is an exploration of life purpose -- why we are here; what matters. It examines the spiritual tasks and truths that help us navigate, to do what we came here to do. Despite our amnesia. Despite pain and fear and loss. In the garden of shadow and light we cling to the day and lose it. This blog is about seeing through the dark.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Number One Hundred and Two

Accessing deep wisdom, gathered over many lifetimes, is a spiritual skill. It involves listening to atman -- the part of our soul that remains in the spirit world during each incarnation. Each choice -- even early in life -- is made either by listening or not listening.

Listening starts with waiting, and not acting. Waiting for the impulse -- whatever it is -- to pass. Waiting to see what lies behind each drive -- the fear or the desire. At the moment of impulse, we access atman by entering the quiet place, the wise place. Letting the feeling rise and fall. Listening for the whisper of what we have always known.